Research Seminar

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Bronx Community College


Talks at the Research Seminar are given by BCC department faculty members and invited speakers from other institutions. The seminar usually meets on Tuesdays at 12 p.m. in room CP 305 for one hour. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Spring 2018 Research Seminar Schedule

Coordinator: Cormac O'Sullivan


February 13

  Matt Sunderland, CUNY Graduate Center,  Geometric Group Theory...+Randomness!


February 20

  No Seminar, (Monday Schedule) 


February 27

  Carlos Moreno, Graduate Center CUNY,  Number of solutions of algebraic equations over finite fields


March 6

  Ivan Horozov, BCC,  Dedekind zeta values and moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces


March 13

  Jan Trlifaj, Charles University, Prague,  Representations and Approximations High and Low


March 20

  Mehdi Lejmi, BCC,  The Chern-Yamabe problem


March 27

  Sergio Estrada, Universidad de Murcia, Spain,  Approximation theory in algebraic contexts


April 3

  No Seminar (Spring Break) 


April 10

  Nikos Apostolakis, BCC,  Unicycles, almost minimal factorizations, and duality


April 17

  Pat Hooper, the CUNY Graduate Center and City College,  Refraction in the trihexagonal tiling


April 24

  Philipp Rothmaler, BCC and the CUNY Graduate Center,  Hiding model theory


May 1

  Malgorzata Marciniak, Laguardia Community College,  Hessian Dynamics on the Hesse Pencil


May 8

  Tony Weaver, BCC,  The anharmonic group


May 15

  The Stanley Friedlander Lecture
Ken Kramer
, the CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College, 
Ramification in Galois extensions of the rationals
   
   

Fall 2018 Research Seminar Schedule

Coordinator: Cormac O'Sullivan


September 18

  Holiday! - No Seminar 


September 25

  Cormac O'Sullivan, BCC and CUNY Graduate Center,  Some new results on the Riemann zeta function


October 2

  Robert Donley, Queensborough Community College,  Central Zeros of Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients


October 9

  Karen Taylor, BCC,  Identities and Maass Waveforms


October 16

  Kealey Dias, BCC,  Quadratic Differentials, Measured Foliations, and Metric Graphs on the Punctured Plane


October 23

  Vincent Martinez, Hunter College,  Asymptotic coupling in hydrodynamic equations and applications to data assimilation


October 30

  Yumeng Ou, Baruch College,  Recent developments on Falconer's distance set problem


November 6

  Wenjian Liu, Queensborough Community College,  Big Data Information Reconstruction on the Infinite Communication Tree Network


November 13

  Nikolaos Apostolakis, BCC,  Duality preserving bijections between non-crossing trees, quadrangulations of polygons, and ternary trees


November 20

  Alex Ryba, Queens College,  Computer generation of incidence theorems in projective geometry


November 27

  Svetoslav Zahariev, LaGuardia Community College,  On scaling limits in Euclidean quantum field theory


December 4

  Senia Sheydvasser, CUNY Graduate Center,  Two Trivial Problems and an Impossible One


December 11

  Claire Burrin, Rutgers University,  Windings of prime geodesics